Halo Drop
18 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsHave you always wondered what it takes to make an Idea go from ok to amazing? To go from Idea to Exit?
What are the trends shaping India today, and how can we take the lessons from Silicon Valley and apply them at scale?
We created Halo Drop to build a community of amazing entrepreneurs, investors, family offices, hustlers, and change agents. We want you to be inspired to learn, build, and become successful! We spend countless hours researching the top trends in India and America to bubble up the macro trends, find amazing companies, and share actionable tips for you to get started.
This isn’t just a show for you to listen in on, we want you to participate and build.
Visit https://www.halodrop.fm for more information.
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Episodes
Sustainable Fashion, the Popularity of Podcasting & Mental Health Support
July 08, 2021 12:30 - 14 minutes - 33.1 MBHow sustainable are your fashion choices? With all the insanity happening across the world right now, what can you do to play your part in consuming clothes that respect the planet? “As eco-conscious consumers realize the environmental toll of fast fashion, there's an increased focus on making clothes that are better for the planet. This can be using less resource intensive manufacturing processes, committing to recycled or sustainable materials, designing more durable fabrics, and...
Applying Lessons Learned from Football to the Business World with San Francisco 49er, Jerry Rice
June 24, 2021 12:30 - 43 minutes - 99.1 MBWe are super excited for this episode of Halo Drop. At the start of the pandemic we hosted an amazing conversation with American football player, Jerry Rice, who imparted a wealth of wisdom gleaned during his time both on and off the football field. “I never thought I would get drafted and go on to live the ultimate dream of playing professional football. You know, a guy out of Mississippi who goes to Mississippi Valley State University and gets drafted by the greatest team ever: T...
Venktesh Shukla - Becoming One Of Silicon Valley’s Most Active Angel Investors
June 10, 2021 12:30 - 40 minutes - 55.8 MBIf you’re an Indian entrepreneur or you're thinking about founding a startup in India, don’t miss Venktesh Shukla this week on Halo Drop. Venk is a general partner in Monta Vista Capital, a VC company focused on seed stage B2B companies, bringing a hands-on operational approach to the first years of a company's life. As President of TiE, a nonprofit that exists to promote wealth creation through entrepreneurship, Venk presides over one of the most powerful networks focused on techn...
3D Printers, DTC Brands & Hydration Multipliers
May 27, 2021 12:30 - 13 minutes - 18.2 MBThe longer we’re all working from home, the more we figure out how to be self-sufficient, and one thing that’s becoming increasingly popular is 3D printing, in particular, printing things at home. In fact, you can even 3D print your new home if you want. “There's a bunch of interesting new startups that are 3D printing houses, where they'll prefab all of it, pre-print it and then essentially move an entire house to wherever the location you want to build it is.” DTC brands are r...
The Rise of Athleisure Wear
May 13, 2021 12:30 - 12 minutes - 17.1 MBGetting back to in-person meetings after a year of working from home means having to find clothes that aren’t athleisure wear and ‘proper shoes’. We’ve become so accustomed to wearing sweats day in and day out, it’s tough setting them aside. “In India we've seen the rise of athleisure outfits by over 1500% over the last year. And as you guys pointed out, Amazon searches for men's loungewear have increased by over 1100% as well.” From athleisure brands, to Peloton sleep meditation...
Peter Pham - The Entrepreneurial Journey To Science Inc.
April 29, 2021 12:30 - 43 minutes - 59.2 MBWe are thrilled to chat with serial entrepreneur Peter Pham, one of L.A.’s most prominent early-stage investors and the co-founder of Science Inc. For those not in the know, Science Inc. is a Santa Monica startup studio and early-stage venture fund that manages over $100 million and recently launched a $310.5 million SPAC (they’re also behind Dollar Shave Club). “You know what you’re going to get with me, you're going to get a neurotic person who's passionate beyond belief. You wan...
Virtual Events, Clean Cosmetics, Drones & Surveillance
April 14, 2021 12:30 - 15 minutes - 21.3 MBRestrictions are slowly beginning to lift, the vaccine is being rolled out both in the US and across the world, but that doesn’t mean we’re going to go right back to how we were pre-pandemic. Virtual events are likely to be an ongoing feature of life as we know it, for the foreseeable future at least. “With revenue totaling over $330 million in 2019, Zoom expects a total revenue of over $620 million by the end of fiscal year 2020. With such growth and further uncertainty ahead reg...
Managing Your Work From Home Life
April 01, 2021 12:30 - 17 minutes - 23.9 MBAs more and more people have to work from home, there have been pluses and minuses across the board. Whether you’ve embraced it or not, the general feeling is that productivity has increased with everyone being at home. That’s great news for the companies, not so much for the workers. Productivity has increased because people can work longer hours because they aren’t having to do two hour commutes, they aren’t taking breaks, they aren’t socializing. And while increased productivit...
Vishal Gondal: The Father Of Indian Gaming On Preventative Health
March 18, 2021 12:30 - 48 minutes - 67.2 MBWe are hugely excited to welcome Vishal Gondal onto Halo Drop. Vishal is an Indian entrepreneur and angel investor. Vishal founded his first company, IndiaGames, at the tender age of 16, a company that was later acquired by the Walt Disney Company. Following his success with IndiaGames, Vishal launched Sweat and Blood Venture group in 2008, to invest in startups at seed level, to help build out youth and entrepreneurship in India. He launched his most recent company, GOQii, in 2014,...
How To Augment Your Healthcare With Alternative Medicine
March 11, 2021 12:30 - 12 minutes - 17.4 MBWelcome back to another jam packed episode of Halo Drop. Today in the ‘what’s keeping everyone refreshed and reset section’, we’re talking about mental health burnout, and how to stay sane. Quite literally, what works for us to bring us back into ourselves when the stress levels are rising. “We have two lives. And the second begins when we realize we only have one.” From going for walks, to following the 10/10 rule, finding your anchor is key to relieving stress. And the reason w...
Vertical Farming, Agricultural Sensors & The Sleep Industry
March 04, 2021 12:30 - 12 minutes - 17.8 MBWelcome to another episode of Halo Drop, this one’s a real eclectic mix for you. We’ve got everything from vertical farming at home, to agricultural sensors, to the best startup Indian mattress companies. But first - what can you do to not be dependent on the supply chain? You can start by growing your own foods, in vertical farming. “Lettuce and basil are super easy to grow, I started growing tomatoes and have been growing them for two months… The tomatoes you grow at home are ...
Mason Borda - Using Digital Assets As A Growth Strategy
February 25, 2021 12:30 - 1 hour - 89.4 MB“Why do I take risks? I think I just get into different rabbit holes, and I just get really interested and I just start going down that path and just do what's interesting to me, what's exciting, and that's sort of how I landed in the crypto space.” If you want to know what the price of Bitcoin is going to be in five years, don’t miss this incredibly special episode with Mason Borda that was recorded live on Clubhouse. It was so good, we couldn’t not share it with Halo Drop listene...
All About Indian Startups with Cross Border Venture Capital Attorney, Shantanu Surpure
February 18, 2021 12:30 - 39 minutes - 54.4 MBFor founders in India thinking about fundraising, incubators and accelerators, to venture capitalists looking for new deals and opportunities to invest in, this is an episode not to be missed. We are so excited to have Shantanu Surpure on the show today. Shantanu is a partner at Inventus Law, and is a US, UK and India admitted corporate lawyer with broad experience on cross border legal matters. He has experience in representing venture capital, private equity funds, emerging gro...
Naveen Tewari - InMobi The Next Decacorn
February 11, 2021 12:30 - 57 minutes - 79.4 MBOn today’s episode we are super excited to chat to our mentor and inspiration, Naveen Tewari, the awe-inspiring Indian entrepreneur, founder and CEO of InMobi, a global provider of enterprise platforms for marketers. “If you are somebody who is able to see the patterns, then you'll do well, by the way, but if you are able to actually break the pattern, then you’ll do exceptionally well.” Naveen’s entrepreneurial journey is a notable one, having started his career as a business ana...
Wellness And The Re-Imagined Experience Economy
February 04, 2021 12:31 - 16 minutes - 9.06 MBWith almost all of us working remotely, from home, a situation that isn’t likely to change in the near future, we’re rooting for a vaccine, to enable us to get back to normal. But a vaccine program is going to take 2-3 years to be rolled out fully, with first world countries getting the vaccine first, then third world countries. And it’s not just a single vaccine, you need one shot, then a booster. So with that in mind, today we’re talking about wellness and rethinking experienc...
Digital Fitness, Interior Design & E-Commerce
February 04, 2021 12:30 - 19 minutes - 10.3 MBWhat has been keeping us up at night? Well, lately, it’s been fitness. Fitness and working out makes us happy, it gives us a chance to disconnect from our otherwise chaotic days. But during the last year, what with being stuck at home and gyms closed, we’ve had to find new ways to get our sweat on. “So we started off early last year, doing a lot of these zoom workouts and trying to be all diligent about doing every floor exercise humanly possible. There's a couple of things that I...
Dealing With Death During Covid
January 21, 2021 12:30 - 16 minutes - 8.32 MBWith so much great stuff happening, you could be forgiven for not wanting to talk about death. But you should not put off dealing with death. How do you prepare for death? What do you think about death? This is the topic of today’s conversation. What should you leave behind for loved ones? What will your legacy look like? “I think one of the things is we don't as a society, we don't talk about it [death] enough. We don't think about it enough. And we kind of stumble upon it when ...
Introducing Halo Drop
December 17, 2020 22:00 - 1 minute - 1.82 MBIntroducing Halo Drop, launching January 2021. For more information, visit https://www.halodrop.fm Hosts Twitter Vishal - https://twitter.com/vgurbuxani Krishna - https://twitter.com/ksub15 Sunil - http://twitter.com/vermasun Show Social Twitter https://twitter.com/halodropfm